Hay-loader.



PATENTED APR. 2, 1907.

v No. 848,621.

W. H. BARTLBTT.

HAY LADER. APPLIGATION FILED DB0.4,1905.

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No. 848,621. yATENTBD APR. 2, 1907.

. W. H. BARTLETT.

HAY LOADER.

APPLICATION FILED DBCA, 1905.

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THE NaRR'ls PE-{ERS co., w/lsnmqrow, D. s.

WILLIAM H. BARTLETT, OF NORA, NEBRASKA.

HAY-LOADER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented. April 2, 119D?.

Application filed December 4. 1905. Serial No. 290206.

To caf/ZZ whom] it puny concern:

Be it known that I, IILLIAM H. BART- LETT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Nora, in the county of Nuckolls, State of Nebraska, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hay-Loaders and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to hay-loaders.

One object is to provide an exceedingly simple, inexpensive, durable, and efficient machine of the character stated.

Another object of the invention resides in the provision of a machine for loading hay embodying such characteristics that the hay may be readily lifted and conveyed over an endless conveyer to the hay-wagon or to any other desired place.y

With these and other objects in view the present invention consists in the combination and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter more fully described, shown in the accompanying drawings, and particularly pointed out in the appended claim.

In the drawings, Figure l is a side elevation of my invention. Fig. 2 is a top plan view. Fig. 3 is a rear view. Fig. 4 is an enlarged detail view illustrating the connection between the steering-wheel and the means for operating the same.

Referring now more particularly to the accompanying drawings, the reference character 1 designates an. ordinary hay-wagon body mounted upon wheels 2 in the usual manner and provided with a tongue 3 for connection with the rear lower cross member 4, which connects with the rear ends of the side sills 5 and 6` of the loader. The tongue is connected in the manner just stated in any suitable manner and preferably in the center of the cross-piece 4.

Mounted near the rear ends of the sills 5 and 6 are the spaced uprights 7 and 8, connected at their upper ends by the upper cross piece or member 9. Connecting the forward l ends of the sills 5 and 6 and the upper ends of the respective uprights 7 and 8 are inclined braces 10 and 1l, whose opposite ends project beyond the elements to which said braces are connected.

Journaled in the corresponding opposite ends of the inclined braces l0 and 11 are forward and rear shafts 12 and 13, upon each of which is mounted a pair of gear-wheels 14 and l5, respectively, the forward gear-wheels 14 meshing each with a gear-wheel 16, carried upon the inner face of the pair of forward ground-wheels 17; upon whose axle 18 the aforesaid side sills 5 and 6 are mounted. These forward and rearward pairs of sprocket-wheels are connected by the chains 19, to which latter the conveyer-apron 20 is connected in any suitable manner. This conveyer receives the hay from the teeth 2l, arranged at the lower forward end of the inclined braces 1() and ll, and carries the same over the upper end of the conveyer to load the hay-wagon l in a manner well understood. As shown, these teeth 2l are rigidly connected together and pivoted, by means of the bar 22, to the inclined braces, so that the teeth may be turned up or elevated when desired. It is therefore obvious that the teeth 2l may be so arranged as to lift the hay from the swath onto the conveyer, from which latter it will be led to the hay-wagon.

In order to guide the loader, I secure hangers 23 and 24 to cross member 4, and in these hangers I journal a caster-wheel 25. To the axle of the caster-wheel I connect two arms 26 and 27. Each of these arms has a rope connected thereto, the ropes being designated by the reference characters 28 and 29, and each passes under the loader to one side thereof for engagement with the corresponding pulley-wheels 30, arranged at opposite ends of the arm 3l, secured intermediate its ends to the side sill 5 by means of a suitable bolt 31. From these pulleys the ropes 28 and 29 pass u wardly for connection upon opposite sides o the pivot 32 of the lever 33. By moving the lever upward or downwardly up on its pivot the caster-wheel 25 through its connections with the lever is turned accordingly for the guidance of the loader.

Thereceiving-wagon or hay-loader proper, l, may be propelled in any desired manner, either by draft-animals or by a motor; but as the means of propulsion form no part of this invention further description and illustration thereof is deemed unnecessary.

What is claimedis- A hay-loader comprising, in combination, a receiving-wagon, a loading-wagon disposed directly in front of said receiving-Wagon and connected therewith; loading mechanism operatively mounted upon said loading-Wagon and extending adjacent the front end of said IOO IIO

receiving-wagon .in position to discharge caster-wheel for turnin@ the latter in oppothereinto; a easter-wheel connected to the site directions to guide the loading-wagon. 1o rear end of said loading-wagon; a lever pivot- In testimony whereof I aflix my signature ally mounted upon said loading-wagon above v in presence of two witnesses.

said easter-wheel and Aextending over the VILLIAM H. BARTLETT. front end of said receiving-wagon in position Witnesses:

to be grasped by the occupant thereof; and ALBT. VOIGT,

flexible connections between the lever and GHAs. R. IMLER. 

